What Is the Meaning of Shmita at Mount Sinai? And the Secret of Preparing to Receive the Torah

This week's Torah portion, on the mountain of my law - the Torah deals with the commandment of the Sabbath - "For you have come into the land that I am giving you, and the land shall keep its Sabbath to the Lord." The great Rabbi Mordechai Brisk, zt"l, the Rabbi of Tashnad, while in the ghetto during the terrible Holocaust, said to interpret the words of Rashi, and in the beginning he explained the subject of the Sabbath, which is to bring a per…